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Happy Thanksgiving, folks. As Action Figure Mohinder and I will be in New York this week, drinking Prosecco and cranberry juice with Ingrid (festive!), the posting schedule might get a little wonky. I'll try to have Heroes up by Tuesday morning, though no promises.Five preview clips of Monday's Heroes may be viewed here. For those who avoid spoilers, I won't comment any further, apart from noting the following: a) Clip #1 looks pretty good, b) Clips #2 through #5 are pretty much the worst things I've ever seen, c) in Clip #4, with the single line "You're so likeable!", Doug just became my new favorite character, and: d) I'm actually sort of okay about being stuck on a plane while the episode airs live.

Writer. Publisher and owner of Luft Books. An Angeleno adrift in New York City, I've got a BFA in screenwriting from USC's film school, a fiendish love of pop culture, and a Duran Duran lyric for every occasion. Reach me on Twitter or at me_richter(at)yahoo(dot)com.

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Action Figure Mohinder is currently locked in mortal combat with Action Figure Tetsuo (I think Tetsuo has the upper hand, pun intended. Dunno, maybe Mohinder could hit him with his Activating Evolution book or something? Strangle him with his man-purse?) and thus might not be able to make it. I'll have to see how the battle goes.

I'm not watching the clips only because I'm going to have to sit through the horror once already when it airs tonight.

You're going to looooooove the Bennet Family Thanksgiving scenes. On the plus side, there's also a new Sylar-heavy promo for the episode (I don't have a link handy) which looks really good, so we'll see. It might end up being a good episode, though I question the judgment of whoever picked those preview clips. Sometimes I think they're deliberately trying to drive the ratings down.

Lou, we missed the parade, by intention. Ingrid and I took a long morning walk across the Queensboro bridge into Manhattan and over to Central Park, avoiding the post-parade festivities all the while. We both shun large crowds whenever possible.

Awesome visit. Returning to Los Angeles in the morning, where I might or might not get caught up on missed shows.

Lou, if you're doing a crash course in missed Heroes episodes and have limited time, just watch the one from last week, and the one from two weeks before that, and skip the rest. There have been some recent stinkers.

Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving! Well, it seems that the rest of the world has gone ahead of you. Like Dan I have been able to watch the next episode of FlashForward (A561984) so I will have plenty of time to consider my response and be first to post on Friday!

And it seems that some of my theories are finally being proven correct - after so many dud ones!

Patrick, I'm looking forward to FlashForward this week. After a lackluster episode followed by no episode last week, I'm feeling the need to get back on track with the show. I've heard whispers from some of the non-United Statesians who managed to see it last week that it was a pretty decent episode.

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